At current, most of my landscape shots are tourist-like and very generic. How can I take photographs which are more interesting without using the cliché technique of long exposure landscape photography?

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Too vague. Answers to this question have filled many books. Take a look at the faq for some tips on how to ask better/more appropriate questions here. This question would be helped quite a lot if you could be much more specific. Consider posting a couple of the photos that you consider 'boring' and ask for ideas about how to make them better.
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CalebJan 3 '13 at 15:13

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It is very broad, but I'll take 15 of these over one more "What's the best cheap camera?"
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mattdmJan 3 '13 at 16:36

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Are you really asking about a fast shutter speed, or just a normal one? Is it necessary for you to shoot landscapes at 1/2000th for some reason? Or would 1/250 be fine? I think you need to quantify fast. I know you aren't interested in multiple second exposures though. If 1/250 is fine, I think this question should be edited to ask about "normal" speeds, not fast.
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dpollittJan 3 '13 at 17:35

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Or "without resorting to long exposure for interest".
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mattdmJan 3 '13 at 17:52

@user14385: I think you need to expound upon your goals here. People don't seem to fully understand what you mean by a "fast" shutter speed, or why you necessarily want a fast shutter speed. Are you aiming for some kind of specific style? Are you just trying to differentiate your work from others? Is there something you don't like about longer exposures, and why? It is difficult to answer vague questions like this, so more information would be very helpful.
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jrista♦Jan 4 '13 at 19:20

Imre mentioned Framing and Composition, and I'd like to expand on it. The single biggest improvement I made to my landscape photography is when I'd read about including something from the foreground to give your composition a feeling of depth. So way the 'tourists' may take a picture of a mountain lake with the water and the mountains behind, try to include something nearer to the camera in the frame, maybe a fallen log on the near shore line, or an interesting rock formation or flowers in the corner of the frame. You need to remember that this object is not the key element of the shot, but more of something to guide the viewer's eyes into the shot.